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Here’s a walkthrough I recently sent to a customer who had questions about how the Google Apps Uploader works. I’m posting it here for future reference.

1) Using either the “Conversion Wizard” or “Advanced Conversion” tool in Emailchemy’s toolbox, convert your mail to Standard mbox Format, giving it a name like “converted”.

2) Switch over to Emailchemy’s Google Apps Uploader tool, select the “converted” folder and enter the target email account’s address (the account that you want to receive the uploaded messages) and leave the default settings for the other options for now.
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Emailchemy’s Google Apps Uploader tool gives you the option of selecting a few different kinds of automatic labeling. If you select “Full Hierarchy”, then the entire folder hierarchy (path) will become a label. Gmail uses these labels for faking IMAP folders to an IMAP client. The other is to select “Each Subfolder”, which will break apart the path string into individual labels, so “/2004/work/project_x” will become 3 separate labels: “2004″, “work”, and “project_x”.

Which to use? I like both. That way, you get to preserve the original hierarchy and still have the flexibility of “tags”.